Fashion Terms — the Apparel Search fashion terminology directory
A question is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, and the information requested may be provided in the form of an answer. Fashion and the fashion industry raise a boundless number of valid questions, from fabric construction and textile terminology to how clothing is made, and this page gathers representative examples with links to answers.
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Questions for the Fashion Industry by Apparel Search Terms of Interest to the Fashion Industry |
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First of all, “What is a question?” A question
is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information.
The information requested may be provided in the form of an answer.
In regard to fashion and the fashion industry, there are tons or
valid questions that need to be answered. The industry is rather
complex and the number of issues that need to be resolved is boundless.
For example, here are a few questions: Check out our new fashion questions & answers section for additional resources. Above contains only a few examples. We encourage you to formulate new ones. You can utilize the fashion discussion forum at the Fashion Industry Network to post your relevant thoughts. On those sites you can ask questions as well as lend your knowledge to help answer ones posed by others. If you plan to utilize those resources, please don’t ask questions such as, "Tell me your name” or "Would you pass the salt?". The idea is to discuss fashion and textile relevant questions ONLY.
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Why These Questions MatterMost of the questions gathered here look simple, and most of them are not. Asking what separates woven fabric from knit fabric is really asking how cloth itself is constructed — yarns interlaced at right angles on a loom, or loops intermeshed by needles — and that one distinction explains how a fabric stretches, drapes, frays and behaves in cutting and sewing. Asking whether kersey is a typo for jersey opens the history of two different woolen cloths with confusingly close names, and asking about the shed of the loom or the difference between shear and sheer teaches the precise vocabulary that factories, mills and buyers use to avoid expensive misunderstandings. The production questions carry the same weight in a different part of the industry. A marker — the layout of pattern pieces on the cloth — decides how much fabric a garment consumes, so a question about markers is a question about cost and waste. Grading decides how a pattern grows or shrinks between sizes, so a question about grading is a question about fit across a whole size range. Even asking what a clothes maker is clarifies who actually makes clothing, as distinct from designing, selling or finishing it. The newer questions on the page — what vintage fashion is, what antimicrobial fabric is, why silver or copper appears in textiles — show the list doing what a living question list should do: absorbing the topics the industry and its customers have started asking about. Readers are encouraged to formulate new questions of their own and to answer the ones they know, keeping discussion directly relevant to fashion and textiles, because a question asked clearly in one place tends to be answered for everyone who searches for it later. Common QuestionsWhat kinds of questions does the fashion industry ask?The examples on this page range across fabric and textile knowledge — woven versus knit fabric, interlock versus jersey, wash and wear, the shed of the loom, shear versus sheer — and production knowledge such as what a marker is, what grading is and what a clothes maker does. Where can fashion questions be answered?This page links to answers for each example question, and the fashion questions & answers section of Apparel Search provides an additional resource for working through industry questions. What makes a good fashion industry question?A good question stays relevant to fashion and textiles. The examples here each ask about a specific fabric, process, term or job, which is what makes them answerable — and useful to other readers with the same question. More to ExploreMore from Apparel Search: Fashion Terms | Fashion Terms Directory | Fashion Terms by Category | Fashion Terms Q | Apparel Search Home
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